ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: William Carlos Williams, Literary Modernism, American Modernism
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After-effect of america cooperating with eu: women"s right to vote. After-effect of the ww1: immigrants from all over the world, regulations were made (1924) The time between the two word wars was the time when the us became a fully modern nation. Huge impact of ww1 and great depression on modernism. Loss of center -> continued and intensified doubts about the possibility of a shared american worldview. Search for new forms of expression and for an anchor when a shared woldview had disappeared. Conflict between elitist and accessible art: pound vs. william carlos williams. Literary modernism: series of conflicts: tradition vs. Innovation: sticking to traditional writing was bad. Serious vs. popular literature: popular forms like film, jazz needed to be embraced to others, politics vs. aesthetics. Imagism: free verse, precision in language and image, based on accurate presentation of the subject with no excess verbiage. Leading writer of the harlem renaissance: he worte peotry, fiction, plays and operas.
